SENATE 3rd Reading Unamended April 14, 2014 SENATE Amended 2nd Reading April 11, 2014Second Regular Session Sixty-ninth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO REENGROSSED This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted in the House of Introduction LLS NO. 14-0430.01 Jerry Barry x4341 SENATE BILL 14-013 SENATE SPONSORSHIP King, HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Pettersen, Senate Committees House Committees Finance Appropriations A BILL FOR AN ACT Concerning resources received by a recipient of an old age pension, and, in connection therewith, making and reducing appropriations. Bill Summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.) For a person eligible for an old age pension, the bill allows the person to receive up to $300 per month in gifts, grants, or donations without reducing the amount of the pension or reporting the gifts, grants, or donations. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 26-2-111, amend (2) (b) as follows: 26-2-111. Eligibility for public assistance. (2) Old age pension. (b) (I) An applicant or recipient of the old age pension who is otherwise qualified shall not be denied the old age pension by reason of the fact that relatives may be financially able to contribute to his or her support and maintenance; except that income and resources of the spouse of an applicant or recipient of the old age pension or of a sponsor of an applicant or recipient of the old age pension who is a qualified alien shall be considered in determining eligibility pursuant to rules of the state department. (II) In calculating the income and resources of any person who is eligible for an old age pension, the state department shall disregard the first three hundred dollars per month received by the person in the form of gifts, grants, or donations. The state department shall not require a person who is eligible for an old age pension to report the first three hundred dollars per month received by the person in the form of gifts, grants, or donations. SECTION 2. Appropriation - adjustments to 2014 long bill. (1) For the implementation of this act, the general fund appropriation made in the annual general appropriation act to the controlled maintenance trust fund created in section 24-75-302.5 (2) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, is decreased by $51,593. (2) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, to the department of human services, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the sum of $38,440, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for allocation to office of information technology services, Colorado benefits management system, for modifications to the Colorado benefits management system related to the implementation of this act. Of said sum, $9,165 is from the general fund, $1,235 is from the old age pension fund created in section 1 of article XXIV of the state constitution, $13,121 is from reappropriated funds received from the department of health care policy and financing out of the appropriation made in subsection (3) of this section, and $14,919 is from federal funds. (3) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, to the department of health care policy and financing, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the sum of $13,121, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for allocation to department of human services medicaid-funded programs, office of information technology services-medicaid funding, Colorado benefits management system, for system modifications related to the implementation of this act. Of said sum, $6,428 is from the general fund, $34 is from the old age pension health and medical care fund pursuant to section 7 (c) of article XXIV of the state constitution, $81 is from the children's basic health plan trust fund created in section 25.5-8-105 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, and $6,578 is from federal funds. (4) In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated to the governor - lieutenant governor - state planning and budgeting, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the sum of $38,440, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for allocation to the office of information technology for the provision of services to the department of human services related to the implementation of this act. Said sum is from reappropriated funds received from the department of human services out of the appropriation made in subsection (2) of this section. SECTION 3. Act subject to petition - effective date. This act takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August 6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); except that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.